Dog Days of Summer Reading from Book Post!

Hello Book Post readers! As we settle into our hammocks with our iced tea, or something stronger, fortifying ourselves for the storms ahead, I thought I’d salve our spirits with some highlights from a year in Book Posting.

Book Post’s paying subscribers receive (aspirationally) one subscriber-only post for every one of the publicly visible posts here. For me these gems are our reason for being. Each one comes from a writer I deeply admire, considering a subject I rate worth the attention, matchmaking on which I spend much of my days. My aim is that each one contributes in some way to a shared culture of insight and information on which we all can build. Paying writers with the newsletter model is our way of resisting the decoupling of monetary and intellectual value wrought by clickbait and algorithm-driven forms of literary distribution. Each of our reviews aspires to be a little cairn on the path to a higher perspective.